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Married. Miss Rosamond W. Thomas, Boston socialite, cousin of U.S. Ambassador to Italy John Work Garrett; and Count Edward Oppersclorff of Germany; at San Michele, Isle of Capri...
...conducted in Milan, Naples, had tried to reduce at Marienbad, had peered about Venice for antiques and lace. With five cameras (two cinema) he and his wife had photographed each other climbing up the Jungfrau, standing in front of Dr. Axel Munthe's San Michele on Capri...
...carried messages between her brother and his friends. Then one day came the dreaded cry: Pogrom! Rosa, with only the clothes she wore and a small satchel, was hurriedly packed off to Italy in the company of a cousin. There she grew up. The Burschstein relations in Capri were poor: Rosa must work. Working, she sang, and soon a rich woman discovered her voice, sent her off to study with Eva Tetrazzini, sister of Soprano Luisa Tetrazzini and wife of Maestro Cleofonte Campanini...
...Pope Pius XI covering all forms of amorous activity (TIME, Jan. 19) produced startling results. A national crusade to promote "Fascist Morality" began. Doctors were arrested by the dozen on charges of extinguishing the unborn, pharmacies were raided for contraceptives, the notorious cliques of unnatural persons in Venice, Naples, Capri, were put under investigation, and at Florence prominent, popular Actress Wanda Orlandini was sentenced to three months in jail. True, the regular licensed bordellos- licensed by the Fascist Government-were not closed, but inspectors of the female occupants were put on their mettle. Under Italian law, as was widely pointed...
...from pretty malades imaginaires just in time), raconteur of Paris and Rome, attending physician to the late Queen of Sweden, according to his own account took from the rich with his right hand, gave to the poor with his left, had enough left over to buy his villa in Capri, retire in comfort. There he lives alone, resents tourists, admires the view...